Lee Hamilton
Former Indiana congressman who served on the Foreign Affairs committee during his entire tenure,
director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.

Jean Kilbourne
Author and researcher

2000-2001

Stephen Jay Gould
Evolutionary biologist and interpreter of science and its
complex social consequences, author of award-winning books,
“The Panda’s Thumb” and “The Mismeasure of Man,” Harvard
University faculty member

Peter Schickele
Composer, musician, author, satirist, host of “Schickele Mix,”
four Grammy Awards for Best Comedy Album for his P.D.Q. Bach

Reuben Greenberg
Chief of police, Charleston, S.C., served law enforcement
agencies in San Francisco, Savannah, Mobile, Florida,
author of “Let’s Take Back Our Streets,”

Jane Hamilton
Best-selling novelist, author of “The Book of Ruth,”
“A Map of the World,” and “The Short History of a Prince”

Loung Ung
National spokesperson for the campaign for a Landmine Free World,
author of “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers,”
and eyewitness account of the savagery exhibited by the Khmer Rouge during
that country’s civil war

James Wines
Designed more that 150 architectural, interior design,
public space, and landscape architecture projects for
corporate clients, lectured over architecture and environmental
design in over 30 countries

1997-1998

Robert Bakker
Paleontologist whose research interests include mass extinction and cycles of worldwide
eco-system collapse, author of “The Dinosaur Heresies”

Norma Cantu
Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education

Margarethe Cammermeyer
Highest ranking officer separated from military after revealing she was a lesbian

1996-1997

Francis Fukuyama
Profound futurist, presentation concerned future of society and social virtues,
wrote widely on Soviet foreign policy in the Third World, member of the
United State delegation to the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian
autonomy

James Autry
Jet fighter pilot, poet and consultant on leadership and
management thinking and author of four books

Sherry Turkle
Professor of sociology in the program of science, technology and Society of
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Carl Djerassi
Chemist and Stanford University professor, researched the chemistry
of steroids, structure of antibiotics, and the synthesis of drugs

Gregory Williams
Dean and professor of law and political science at the Ohio State
University College of Law, author of best selling memoir
“Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who
Discovered He was Black”

1995-1996

Harry Edwards
Professor of sociology at the University of California-Berkeley,
concentration on black athletes in the world of sports and their education

Terry Waite
British hostage negotiator who spent five years in captivity in
Beirut, founder chairman of Y-Care International

Wilma Mankiller
Principle chief of the Cherokee Nation since 1987

Juan Williams
Among the nation’s foremost political analysts, author of PBS series
“Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965.”